Zero trust for classified missions
The network perimeter is the wrong unit of defense for the nation's most sensitive systems. Here is how we think about zero trust where the stakes are highest.
Perimeter-based security assumes that everything inside the boundary can be trusted. For classified missions, that assumption is a liability: the most damaging incidents come from credentials and sessions that are already inside.
Identity is the new perimeter
Every request — human or machine — is authenticated, authorized, and encrypted on its own merits. Nothing is trusted because of where it originates.
What that looks like in practice
- Strong, phishing-resistant identity for every principal
- Continuous authorization, re-evaluated per request rather than per session
- Microsegmentation so a single compromise cannot move laterally
- Telemetry on every hop, feeding continuous monitoring
Zero trust is not a product you buy. It is an operating posture you maintain.
The payoff is resilience: when — not if — a credential is compromised, the blast radius is contained to a single, observable request.
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